Education and Leader Development Faculty Panel and Faculty Advisory Committee (FAC) Representative Biographies
Kirklin J. Bateman (CISA) Kirklin J. Bateman is Professor of Practice, Department of War and Conflict Studies (WACS), College of International Security Affairs (CISA) of the National Defense University (NDU) in Washington, DC. He was commissioned through the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps at the University of Kansas as an infantry officer and served throughout the United States and Southwest Asia in air assault and mechanized infantry units. He career field designated as a strategist and completed assignments with the Joint Staff, Army Staff, and Army Cyber Command. He was principal author of the 2004 and 2005 CJCS Risk Assessment of the National Military Strategy and on the writing team of the 2004 National Military Strategy and 2005 National Defense Strategy. He was also the principal author of the 2007 Army Strategic Planning Guidance. In addition to CISA, he has also served on the faculty at the Army Infantry Officer Advanced Course and the Marine Corps Amphibious Warfare School. He retired as a colonel in 2013 after twenty-five years of commissioned service. Education Ph.D., George Mason University: History (2014) M.A., George Mason University: History (2002) B.A., University of Kansas: History (1988) Research Interests Military and Strategic Studies Counterinsurgency Counterterrorism The Vietnam War Citizen Soldiers
Mr. Carey Gordon, USAID Chair (ES) Mr. Gordon is a career member of the U.S. Senior Foreign Service with more than 25 years of overseas experience with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in Asia and Africa, including multi-year assignments in Pakistan, Bangladesh. Cambodia, Thailand, Ivory Coast, Congo (Kinshasa), the Sudan and Kyrgyz Republic. During his posting as USAID Representative in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic (2010-13), he directed the U.S. assistance program in economic growth, democracygovernance, health, education and conflict mitigation. In Bishkek he also served as Co-Chair (with the UN Representative) of the Kyrgyz Republic Development Partners representing international donors with the Kyrgyz Government. As Deputy USAID Mission Director in Bangladesh (2007-10), Mr. Gordon helped lead a large diversified assistance program and was actively involved in the U.S. Government response to Cyclone Sidr in 2007. In earlier overseas assignments, Mr. Gordon served as a USAID Contracting Officer and as project officer responsible for USAID's China Rule of Law program. During his overseas tours in Bangladesh and the Kyrgyz Republic, he periodically served as Acting Deputy Chief of Mission, helping to manage overall American Embassy operations in those countries. Prior to joining USAID in 1986, Mr. Gordon worked for 6 years as a trial lawyer in Cleveland, Ohio, where he became partner in Rippner Schwartz & Carlin. He is a Member of the Bar in the District of Columbia, Ohio, the U.S. Supreme Court, the 6th Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. District Court (N.D. Ohio). He previously taught international law at the University of Khartoum (Sudan) and trial practice at Cleveland State University Law School. Mr. Gordon received his B.A. in History from Ohio State University, M.A. in Far East Asian Studies from the University of London (M.A thesis on Sino-Japanese Fishery Disputes), and his J.D. cum laude from Cleveland State University. He also studied intensive Chinese at Cambridge University, and completed training courses at the Foreign Service Institute and the Federal Executive Institute.
He has traveled extensively in Asia, Africa and Europe, and has published articles on Sudanese law in the International Lawyer (ABA, Chicago) and the Journal of African Law (London). FUNCTIONAL EXPERTISE: Foreign Affairs - Democracy-Governance - Rule of Law - Economic Development - Federal Procurement REGIONAL EXPERTISE: China - Southeast Asia - South Asia - Central Asia - Sub-Saharan Africa
LTC Carl CJ Horn, USA (icollege) LTC CJ Horn is a military faculty at the icollege. Prior to his arrival, CJ served as an Armor officer and strategist in Germany, Korea, the Pentagon, Kuwait, and Iraq. His most recent assignment was in Kabul, Afghanistan, where he served as the Chief for Policy and Strategy for the Deputy Commander for Regional Support in the NTM-A/CSTC-A. Prior to coming to the icollege, CJ was a Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff of the Army. CJ also served on the History Department faculty at West Point where he taught both graduate and undergraduate courses. He remains active in the military history community and has presented papers on military innovation and technology at national and international conferences. His dissertation on military innovation and technology is scheduled to be published by the University of Kentucky in the fall of 2014.
CAPT David Mayo, USN (NWC) CAPT Mayo Captain David Mayo joined the NWC faculty in July 2011. He is a 1985 Graduate of the Juilliard School. CAPT Mayo is a career Naval Officer with 24 years of service. He has over 3600 flight hours and 700 carrier landings in the S-3B Viking. While serving as Commanding Officer of VS-21, the squadron earned the CNAP Safety S and Battle E awards. CAPT Mayo decommissioned the squadron after 60 years of faithful service, and 60,000 mishap free flight hours. His carrier aviation combat experience includes Operation DESERT SHIELD/DESERT STORM and IRAQI FREEDOM. CAPT Mayo served on the Joint Staff, Washington, D.C. as an Action Officer in the Joint Operations Directorate (Current Operations) and also served as the Executive Assistant to the Vice Director (J-31) and Director of Operations (J-3) for the Joint Staff during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. CAPT Mayo's most recent assignment was Deputy Director for Operations, Intelligence and Logistics on the staff of Commander SIXTH Fleet, Naval Forces Europe and Africa. He supported National Mission Force requirements in AFRICOM, planned and integrated Ballistic Missile Defense capabilities into the EUCOM architecture, and directed combat operations during Operation ODYSSEY DAWN. He attended the United States Air Force's Air Command and Staff College, and earned a Master s Degree in Political Science from Auburn University. CAPT Mayo served as an instructor at Joint Forces Staff College where he was designated as a Master Instructor with expertise in the interagency process, joint operational planning and operational command and control.
Mr. James Churbuck (Faculty Advisory Committee; icollege) While an active duty Naval Officer, Prof. Churbuck served as a Joint Staff Political-Military Planner, Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction Division, Deputy Director, War on Terrorism. As Branch Chief, he provided military advice to the National Security Council in formulating U.S. Policy on WMD treaties and non-proliferation regimes and represented the Joint Staff on U.S. Delegations to the United Nations, International Atomic Energy Agency, the Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons, and to the Biological Weapons Convention. He also contributed text to the National Military Strategy to Combat WMD. As a Branch Chief at US European Command (ECJ5 Treaties & Threat Reduction), he helped negotiate the Adapted CFE Treaty and the 1999 Vienna Document at the OSCE. He is practiced in Operational Risk Management, having spearheaded the initial implementation of a formal ORM program in the early '90s. He also has extensive experience as an information systems officer and as a contingency planner. Academic Interests & Scholarship: Prof. Churbuck has a longstanding interest in national security policy, critical infrastructures, information technology, and cyber security. Because of the implications on public policy as well as his fascination with the underlying engineering, he actively tracks emerging technologies with emphasis on mobile converged devices and on geo-location services.